Lovey-Dovey All the Time
Apparently, there’s also a lyric in David and Roselyn’s song Slavin’ Train which contains the line: “If you don’t like the peaches, don’t shake my tree.” But David and Roselyn didn’t go after Miller for it. The Clovers, on the other hand, did.
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Well, it was technically Ahmet Ertegun, the legendary Atlantic Records label exec who co-wrote the track Lovey Dovey, who sued Miller for plagiarism. Ertegun co-wrote the tune two decades earlier and got himself a songwriting credit on The Joker.